Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2006, 6:54 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2006, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2006, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Middlesex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 292255
SVRPHI
NJC023-292330-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0098.060629T2254Z-060629T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
654 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PERTH AMBOY...NEW BRUNSWICK
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
PERTH AMBOY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS
WERE FORMING TO THE SOUTHWEST NEAR NEW BRUNSWICK AND EAST
BRUNSWICK.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WOODBRIDGE...SPOTSWOOD...SOUTH RIVER...SOUTH AMBOY...SEWAREN...PORT
READING...MILLTOWN...METUCHEN...MADISON PARK...ISELIN...HIGHLAND
PARK...HELMETTA AND FORDS
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 4055 7448 4039 7446 4033 7437 4050 7420
4057 7425
$$
JRPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 3:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester | 24 min |
| Jun 29, 3:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 37 min | |
| Jun 29, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 32 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.